UN removes Saudi-led coalition from child rights blacklist

The United Nations has removed the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen from a blacklist of child rights violators after Riyadh angrily protested the decision. Saudi Arabia had demanded that a UN report be “corrected” after it concluded that the coalition was responsible for 60 percent of the 785 children killed in Yemen last year. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon agreed to a Saudi proposal to review the facts and cases cited in the report jointly with the coalition, his spokesman Stephan Dujarric said.